No one is in Control said Zygmunt

In the news

 recently read about the election of Austria new leadership. I read the day before that the bad man

won so then I felt surprised and glad that it was not so the day after. So close between the rightwing

Norbert Hofer and an environmentalist Alexander Van Der Bellen. Alas, nature won over the strong

opinions from an angry man(and also almost 50% of the voters)

The article about the election in Austria tells me that two other European countries has a extrem

right leadership already, which is something to worry about. If you didn't care before I mean,

connected to this is the man whom visited Stockholm ten days ago, a man that has a lot to say about

the human society For me other news is Zygmunt Bauman, 91years old, is still alive,

a short interview is available on SVT (Swedish television), I so could have been listening to him IRL

if I wasn't jetlagged from the Berlin trip and happy to be home in the garden that sunday. I could go

on and on about how beautiful that city was and also filled with heavy memorabilia from the war, but

also green and bohemia that like vegan and bio-markets, its more to choose from that in Stockholm,

ecological and arts, picnic in the park. I've

seen the remains of the Wall that has so many songs written about it from like the Who, Bowie, Ebba

Grön to name a few. I left Berlin with memos from contemporary art and In the Hauptbahnhof museo

there was a video room where Cate Blanchett played 13 different characters that were synched in

moments, called Manifesto, I visited with my mates the site, Teufelsberg were some scenes had

been recorded with a view over Berlin. It was amazing abandoned but still entrance fee and graffiti

all over the place... [insert pictures here/link to album]

The old man that is Zygmunt tells about how evil has spread into society more broad then before,

and how technology has changed our society. His english speaking voice reminds me of

that of Count Dracula in Bram Stokers Dracula(1991), the way Gary Oldman talks.

To look at the swedish society shows really how things

are with a computerized wealthy place how the nature of sociability has become less and

more people are more stressed out and sure we are more connected online with cellphones

but at the same time more unavailable because of it.

He talked about power and politics. Power means make things done. The politics are there for to

decide what to be done. No one is in control. Things happen randomly.

What will the future be? There is always hope. Hope, yeah.

I like that the green party, the environmentalist won in Austria. There is still hope of a better future. 


Folklore: yesterday I read that Loki(Loke/Lodur) was the one that named Saturday/Lördag in

Swedish/northern society before the Christianity decided to change it. They kept the holy beings of

Sun(Sol), Moon(Måne), Tyr, Oden, Tor and Feja as naming the weekdays.

So it was OK to have the warrior God Tyr, God of wisdom and death Odin, God of Thunder and

Freja - the godess of love for friday but no to Loki, the giant creative/destructive (also most human

force) because the day in the roman calendar was Saturnus, so close to satan.

The church had a meeting the year 1153 in Nidaros and decided to change what for the priesthood

sounded like a satanic Lodursday to Laugardagen (a washing up/holy water day) for it to sound

alike. So what was taught in school was a lie. The Seventh day is no longer bathing day

it is Loki day.

I wonder how much more little lies there are written in books. I dare not think about it. 



No one is in control... 

but the people voted Ukraine to win ESC2016. 

"I could not spend my youth there

Because you took away my land

I couldn't have my homeland" 

translation of the difficult crimean tartar refrain

words the story of the singers aunt/ or grandma? 

and it is not political? It resonated with many anyhow.

The one with the remote control got the power. Sad but true. 

mandela and forgiveness

DT - One thing Keep remembering. Evil is an abbrevation. You get upset when a     woman get abused

CF - Yes, you look at me as if I dont?

DT - At Darfur its one of the most awful places worst place, met with refugees, talked with them, they could laugh. the men who Nurse white robes, clean, spotless.

CF - Where do they get the water?

DT - Part of it there are trucks. If the women go out of the camp the women get raped.

CF - What?

DT - Human beings are incredible. I mean you are incredible

CF - The thing I was gonna uh

DT - The second thing.. shh

CF - Oh yeye no you're right, you're good

DT - ..incredible thing, The humanitarian workers. Have we hear enough craze of fantastic people, many of them go their second, third mission. What make them go there? They get no kudos. They can't live normal life if they don't go

CF - Is that why you hang on to the faith? When you see such evil, is it a test of your faith?

DT - It is that Evil is evil. You can't seek to the ghastliness when people put others into gaschambers.

CF - ye..

DT - I mean that is awful there is no word had good enough to describe the level of Evil, I mean in the Truth and Reconcilation commission we had some gruesome accounts. Somebody said we gave him drug coffe, we shot him in the head, and then we burned his body, it takes 7-8hour for a human body to burn completely. And so whilst the body is burning here we're having a barbeque here drinking beer and laughing and there the human body burnin and here cowflesh burnin and you say what could have happened o the humanity of anyone that they could sink so low Had a barbeque next to that.

CF - What could have happened and How do you find reconciliation, how do you find forgiveness in that? It must be its a gigantic tragedy.

DT - It is and yet have met Not just black people, white people too, who had this incredible, One woman was with friends at a X-mas party at a golfclub, and one of the liberation movements threw handgrenades into the party and Several people were killed, she wasnt killed but she was so badly wounded she was in ICU for several months now She is talkin she says she couldn't when she came out, she couldn't wash herself, she couldnt cloth herself, she couldn't feed herself, it was done for her by her children and then she says. I mean a condition that leaves her
Totally hopeless. She said It has Enriched my life. I mean, enriched my life, This woman crazy

CF - It's very advanced for me, I dont get it

DT - And Then she says I'd like to meet the perpertrator. I'd like to meet him in the spirit of forgiveness. I'd like to forgive him and I hope he forgives me.

CF - Is that the only way to freedom? I remember something about Hearing the Dalai Lama talking about he Felt he was in danger with the chinese because he felt himself loosing compassion for them, which I really didn't understand at the time, but it sounds a little bit like your saying. .

DT - The thing is that you and I, and all of us. Even when we don't accept it I mean or understand. It is that God created us in such a way that I can't be human on my own. I wouldn't know how to walk as a human being, I wouldn't know how to think, I wouldn't know how to speak, I wouldn't know how to be a human being Except through learning from other human being. and so our humanity is bound with one another. And you see If you carry out a policy that dehumanizes others in the process you are dehumanized, you know and so you understand now, you understand how others can say in order for me to be me, I want to forgive you. Because, have you discovered? When you don't forgive frequently, you feel it in you tumtum

CF - Ye I always was told that resentment was like drinking poison and then excepting someone else to die, you know that has...

DT - That was beautiful

CF - Thank you very much its not mine. Father Tutu, we must take a break.
((It was a Quote from Nelson Mandela))

Transcripted from an Episode of Craig Ferguson Late Show with guest Desmond Tutu. Check it out on youtube if you wish. I own nothing.